Nope. He was born Zachary Levi Pugh and adopted his middle name as his last name (something a lot of actors do, just like Tom Cruise and Jonah Hill).

That’s the thing... Levi isn’t his last name, it’s his middle name.

There is absolutely nothing anti-vaccine about calling out pharmacy companies for their bullshit. This is a terrible take, shame on you.

When I first read this article, I was expecting something much worse. The reality is that many, if not most, large enterprises in America use evaluation systems like this. The question that often gets asked is “what happens if a team is filled with high performing individuals, does this mean someone gets the shaft?”

The…

*ahem*

Yeah a lot of companies make it so managers really have to fight hard for their top performers to stay marked as such, but conversely they won’t forcibly adjust people below the acceptable performance rating unless there’s actually some evidence that the employee in question is actually underperforming.

Ummmm... so this is standard in big business. What Blizzard is doing here is following cultural American norms of larger corporations. I’m in HR at one of those corps and we follow a similar system but the intent isn’t to squeeze out the bottom performers, we use a balancing scale so we know how to budget out…

This reminds me of the company I last worked at.

Honestly I’m fairly certain this practice is done in Australia and many other countries. The big corporations all follow similar play books and they all hire the same consulting firms to advise on HR practice like this shit. This isn’t an “American” problem and just good old fashion late stage capitalism 

Systems like these suck but they are very common in corporate America. You may not even realize that your companies rating system is setup like this because it’s only told to management. Raises and bonus programs are tied to these sorts of ratings so companies never want to pay those out if they can help it.

Devil’s advocate here - couldn’t we all name 5% of the people at our jobs that are doing a shitty job? If not more?

‘If everybody is hitting the work quota, nobody is hitting the work quota.’

Of all the things that would total a car, flooding is absolutely my no go. Fresh or worse salt water in a modern or even older car is just not a good base to be starting from.  I don’t care how cheap the car is.

This is poor mental gymnastics. Forewarning of a price increase does not, by any reasonable intrepretation, translate to a sale. In fact, raising the normal price of a product to then claim the original price is now “on sale” is considered deceptive pricing by the FTC and prohibited in some jurisdictions.

I’m no game dev, but it would seem to me like if you want to keep making money, then the solution isn’t to increase the price of a six year old game; it’s to develop a new game, would it not?

But of course the devs did the thing where you release a game as “early access” so you can make money before the game is…

That really doesn’t make sense unless Steam has increased the fee charged per purchase.

I can’t think of any other game that has done this so it’s a bit premature to consider this a trend. Games sometimes get more expensive when leaving early access but Factorio left early access in 2020. I can’t think of any other game that received a price hike after it’s 1.0 release.

Again, the weird thing isn’t that this game costs $35. The weird thing is that the developers raised its price after it being out for almost 7 years. Raising a game’s price after its release is very unusual.

Wasn’t the first one back when they graduated from early access?

This finally motivated me to just remove it from my wishlist. I didn’t know that the not going on sale thing was a dev policy, otherwise I never would have added it in the first place. I rarely pay more than $20 for any game (that’s what patience is for), so if I wasn’t gonna buy this for $30, I’m sure as shit not…